Tuesday, September 23, 2008

I spent the weekend Begatting. When we moved into our house a year ago we had a white birch tree removed form the front yard. The tree was about two feet from our front walkway and was infested with ants. After the stump was ground out we had a rather large bare area directly in front of our house. This empty space begat some shrub removal in the same area.

I think I have dug up and removed about 15 bushes and shrubs from our front yard in the past year. The shrub removal has begat a new garden project.

I used a Mantis rototiller to dig a rather large area for our walk way garden. Of course the kids helped with sifting the dirt. Notice their brown shirts that help hide the dirt for our many trips to Lowes. The only thing of interest we found sifting was a about a dozen worms and rusty quarter. The new garden begat a "cosmetic fence" to the front of our house. Lauren took pictures to document the progress. It was right at this point that she said, "Wow. The first two posts went in so easy. That wasn't bad at all.", which then cursed me to have the last post take twice as long to set. We are half way done our landscaping project and now I feel comfortable that if we have any visitors to our house that ride a horse, they will have a place to tie up reins.

William,First off, that is one great looking fence, I usually put off yard work until I see an eviction notice on the door. Also, good luck with the Dorito diet. After reading a ton of green mommy blogs, I really enjoyed the insights and angles your blog has to offer (not to mention the humor). Your attention to the green movement and the environment leads me to believe we may have a common interest/audience. My name is Lauren, I’m an intern with Rev currently working on a social media program involving parenting blogs and I believe this may be of some interest to you and your readers. My group is coordinating a community-outreach effort for the REV Spokesperson Contest. This contest is aimed towards mothers, but I feel that your audience would be interested in knowing about this opportunity. The idea is simple: we’re looking for healthy, active moms who can tell their story, give advice and empower moms who aspire to “do it all” without neglecting themselves.

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So... I have ta huge landscaping project that needs done and none of the landscaping companies around here want to do it. They come out, look at what needs done and never call back. Seriously, it's a big $$ project. Interested?

I'll bet weekend projects are very hard for you when the kids around... what with all of the opportunities for jokes regarding the words "nailed," "drilled," "screw," "hole," etc. I'm the baby in my family and my sisters tell me that my parents were so much more relaxed with me - didn't watch their language as much, didn't worry that I was going to hurt myself, etc. Taking that theory into account, the new kid's first phrase will probably be, "That's what she said."

Now I know who to call to help finish build our house. Nice work, big daddy. And the hitchin' post was hilarious. Of course, it may not be so funny if we can't afford to fuel our cars in the future. You may just be a trendsetter.